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Seems Antifa has been affiliated with the upside down red triangle before any Trump campaign images used it[1]

[1] https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/47921/36967

To quote the top answer on that questions:

> To claim like the campaign that this would be the symbol, or even a really common one – in the US – seems to not have been true. This changed obviously in a reverse-Streisand now.

That same answer goes on to show all of the imagery dating back to WWII using the red triangle. Plus images of modern Antifa paraphernalia including T-Shirts, Stickers and more that include that symbol.

Seems, to me, the upside down red triangle is definitely a symbol of Antifa, although perhaps not the most commonly used symbol in the US.

Regardless, the claim that the Trump campaign picked an obvious Nazi symbol just to make Antifa look bad seems very clearly garbage. I, as a sample of one, have never seen that symbol used in a Nazi context before, but that's just me.

> Regardless, the claim that the Trump campaign picked an obvious Nazi symbol just to make Antifa look bad seems very clearly garbage.

That is not anyone's claim. Explain why you think that the Trump campaign's adoption of the symbol the Nazis used to brand and kill political prisoners somehow makes antifa look bad?

It wasn't about making antifa look bad. It was about showing people the double-standard that social media has. Its about waking people up.

That top answer is editorializing but their own analysis indicates that in Europe the upside red triangle is incredibly common in resistance movement imagery as well as having precedented use in US Antifa branches.

As far as symbols go, it's fairly good. Simple is better than complex. A red triangle has no difficult lines, curves or fine detail. You can spray paint it, print it, draw it... and it will look pretty much the same every time.

The three flag symbol isn't nearly as easy to make the same everywhere every time without some official stencil or something.

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